Moin, On Saturday 18 March 2006 08:12, Adam Kennedy wrote: > From my understanding, one of the little idiosyncrasies of > Makefile.PL/Build.PL installers (including MI variants of both) is that > in order to make sure that the Makefile and Build use the correct perl > installation, you should always be explicitly running M/B.PL with the > perl you want to install the module with, and NOT necesarily with the > default perl. > > This is why installation instructions read > > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install > > and not > > ./Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install
For what a tiny fraction of users is there a distinction between these two? And how many users read the insturctions at all, and if, do get the subtle difference or just use "./Makefile.PL" anyway? I guess changing Makefile.PL to non-executable will result in a big outcry of all the people who only have one perl installed and find the added hassle annoying. (I always use "perl Makefile.PL" but this is just a habit, with no thought, I cannot remember having sit at a computer with more than one Perl installed, ever) Best wishes, Tels -- Signed on Sat Mar 18 09:34:39 2006 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Look, I'm about to buy me a double barreled sawed off shotgun and show Linus what I think about backspace and delete not working." -- some anonymous .signature
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